Using Bing and Finding Trojan Horse

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   newsworthyposted 14 years ago

   As I was researching a certain news topic last night, I used Bing search engine and found several sites on the topic. As soon as I clicked the 3rd ranked site in the lineup, a high risk level trojan horse intrusion occured. 
   
   Fortunately, my virus protection held the virus in quarantine and then I removed it.
   
   Im wondering how a 3rd ranked listing with a trojan horse gets listed so high in a search engine.  How does this happen?

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   onthewritesideposted 14 years ago

   Because BING! is a Microcrap product, and hackers love to pick on Microcrap!

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   BundleBoyposted 14 years ago

   newsworthy, It would be interesting to know what topic you were searching on?
   onthewriteside, I would be interested to know what operating system you use?

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      onthewritesideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, it is true...I do still use XP occasionally.  However I try to use Linux whenever possible.  I can triple boot with Linux, XP, and Windoze Blista' as well.

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      newsworthyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      The hot topic; a San Diego car company called V Vehicle

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   nicompposted 14 years ago

   Read my Bing hub... I did a search and the third URL in the results was a link to a torrent... and the link was broken. Poor quality search engine, I'd say.

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   SweetiePieposted 14 years ago

   The same thing has happened even using Google.  However, I prefer Google as my favored search engine because it is by far the cream of the crop.

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   wordscribe41posted 14 years ago

   I've also experienced it on Google.  Got attacked by Trojan horses one night searching for a medical condition.  Was on the first page.  Highly annoying.

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   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   That's why I like McAfee, it lets you know before you click if a site is safe or suspicious.

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      My Downtown Viewposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I definitely rely heavily on my McAfee to let me know about sites. I also have a plug-in from Firefox called WOT and it gives a color-coded threat level indicator next to the site.

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         Uninvited Writerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Yes, I have that too.

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         flread45posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Me too,McAfee

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   newsworthyposted 14 years ago

   I never experienced an attack from a search engine first page listing before and was quite surprised by it. I guess it isnt the rare thing after all.

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   charlemontposted 14 years ago

   It's not limited to Microsoft SE.
   Google occasionally includes in its listings links to non-existent websites and pages with malicious content. That's why surfing itself is dangerous.

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      WeddingConsultantposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      That's why I prefer to stay on the beach.

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    newsworthyposted 14 years ago

    It just seems with all the effort put forth with hubbing and with writers working so hard to get page ranked, search engine trojans are really a waste of good space.
    
    Not to mention with all the great technology available today, its just baffling How it Happens.

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